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You still have to download it all... Which is a barrier for most...



That's only a size of regular modern video game... the downloads of which are pretty mainstream these days. Saying that a 50 gig download is a barrier "for most" is definitely not true.


For English it states 90 GB uncompressed, doesn't say compressed size but that doesn't sound much larger than a large game. In the context I don't see it as a barrier.


As someone who was very recently on about as bad of a dsl connection you could get... What? Outside of metered cellular connections this is available to basically everyone. Even the remotest parts of Africa have at least a handful of unmetered connections within a days drive and a USB drive.


Gears of War 5 on the Xbox is 133GB with all its updates. I think we're at the point where 100GB is a high but reasonable request for people nowadays, at least in cities in the West.




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